East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam — Tom Russell
Chords and lyrics for East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam by Tom Russell (key of F).
Verse 1
Tom Russell - East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam
Intro
[C] [G] [F] [C] [G] [F] [C] [G] [F]
Verse 1
"I [C]slept through the Nineteen Sixties"
I heard [F]Dory Previn say
But [C]me, I caught me the great white bird
To the shores of [G]Africay
Where I [C]lost my adolescent heart
To the [F]sound of a talking drum
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C]Vietnam[F][G]
Verse 2
And on the [C]roads outside Oshogbo
Lord, I [F]fell down on my knees
There were [C]female spirits in old mud huts
Iron bells ringing up in the [G]trees
And an [C]eighty-year-old white priestess
She made [F]juju all night long
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C]Vietnam[F][G]
Chorus
Raise high the [F]roof beams, carpenter boy
Yeah, we’re [C]coming through the rye
In the cinema I saw the man on the moon
I laughed so hard I [G]cried
It was [C]somewhere in those rainy seasons
That I [F]learned to carve my song
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C][G][F][C][G]Vietnam[F][G][C][F]
Verse 3
Oh [C]Africa, Mother Africa
You lay [F]heavy on my breast
You old [C]cradle of civilization
Heart of darkness blood and [G]death
Though we [C]had to play you, running scared
When the [F]crocodile ate the sun
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C]Vietnam
Verse 4
Well, I think it’s going to rain tonight
I can [F]smell it coming off the sage
As I [C]sit here reading old Graham Greene
I taste Africa on every [G]page
And then I [C]close my eyes and see those red clay roads
It’s [F]sundown, and boys, I’m gone
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C]Vietnam
Chorus
Raise high the [F]roof beams, carpenter boy
Yeah, we’re [C]coming through the rye
It was a moveable feast of war and memory
A dark old [G]lullaby
It was the [C]smoke of a thousand camp fires
It was the [F]wrong end of a gun
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C]Vietnam, [F]yeah
Yeah, [C]east of Woodstock, [G]west of [C][G][F][C][G]Vietnam[C][F][G][C][F]
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